Cognitive load

[jbv]

On Sun, April 23, 2017 9:55 am, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
> I'm not sure why smaller should necessarily be better.
>

It is actually, and the cognitive load approach, especially for
programmers newbies, is quite relevant.
Newbies have to deal with 2 or 3 things simultaneously :
1- the language itself
2- the programming "rules" (variables, loops...)
3- the program itself they're attempting to write.

It is a well-known fact that the workload that human minds can
process per unit of time is limited (AFAIR 7 bits/sec), so the
less cognitive load is needed by step 1 above, the more remains
available for the other steps...